Switched to using a isinstance check on the string.
Added an order by clause to dao_get_template_usage_stats_by_service, it was causing an itermitten failure in the tests.
- task not really necessary as the status is already set to 'sending' before the task is called if it is not sending i.e. in reseach mode or using a test key
- calls create fake response file to allow functional tests to run and trigger update of status to delivered only on preview and development so that FT response files don't pollute staging and live buckets
Currently templates are ordered by the newest created first. This made
sense when, after creating a new template, you were landed on the page
that listed all the templates. In other words, you needed to see
confirmation of the thing that you’ve just done.
Now (since https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1195)
you get landed on the page for just that template. So you always see
the template you’ve just created, no matter how the list of templates is
ordered. So we are free to change the order of the templates.
Ordering by time created is not great, because it gives users no control
over which templates appear first. For example, our research reported
this from one team:
> One frustration they have is that when you add a new template it
> automatically goes to the top of the list. To get round this, whenever
> they add a new template they delete all of the existing ones and start
> again because they want to keep their templates in numerical order.
> They'd like to be able to control the order of templates in the list.
We _could_ give people some sort of drag-and-drop template ordering
thing. But this feels like overkill. I think that alphabetical order is
better because:
- it’s easily discoverable – anyone who wants to know how a list is
ordered can quickly tell just by looking at it
- it’s universal – everyone knows how alphabetical ordering works
- it’s familiar – this is how people documents on their computer are
ordered; there’s no new UI to learn
- it’s what users are doing already – from the same service as above:
> They number their templates 1,2a, 2b, 3a etc
So this commit changes the ordering from newest created first to
alphabetical.
Previous changes to template order and navigation:
- https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1163
- https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1195
- https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1330
Implementation notes
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I refactored some of the tests here. I still don’t think they’re great
tests, but they’re a little more Pythonic now at least.
I also added a sort by template type, so that the order is deterministic
when you have, for example, an email template and a text message
template with the same name. If you have two text message templates with
the same name you’re on your own.
Notifications.serialize calls `Notifications.template.get_link`, so
we need TemplateHistory objects to generate their API URLs.
This generates a link to the `/v2/` version of the endpoint.
Refactor tests/db/create_service() to behave more like the real world.
Created new create_service_with_inbound_number and create_service_with_defined_sms_sender() test/db methods.
- had to update the serialization in the model so that the date time is appended with the UTC timezone
- test has been added to ensure that the schema will validate the response correctly
International SMS is a mature, documented feature now. There’s no reason
it shouldn’t be available to everyone. If it’s turned off by default
then we’re relying on people finding it in the settings page to know
that it exists (which we found in research the other week that users,
who would have benefitted from having international SMS, were failing to
do).
This also fixes the problem whereby users signing up for Notify with an
international phone number (eg those working abroad for the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office) couldn’t get through the tour because they weren’t
able to send themselves the example text message (see
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/150705515).
Added clarification to an error message to give better debugging information.
Removed using dao_get_reply_to_by_service_id in tests to be more consistent with other code and use the test db functions or remove the need for a call altogether making the code less complex.
